Shoe and process of making the same



Jan. 8, 1929. 1,698,473

C. H. DANIELS sacs AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME Fi-led Dec. 11, 1923 ll w Patented Jan. 8, 1929.

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CLAUDE n. DANIELS, or NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS;

SHOE AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME.

Application filed December 11, 1923. Seriallil'o. 680,026. I

This invention relates to shoes of the type wherein a welt is employed for assembling the upper with the outer sole, and has as its principal object the provision of a shoe with a maximum degree of flexibility and wherein all the elements, including the innersole, are held securely by stitching. The invention also consists in a new and improved innersole adapted for use in the shoe of .my invention. In the manufacture of shoes by the ordinary Goodyear welt system, an objection is found particularly in the smaller sizes,

for children and ladies, that the lines of stitching which unite the innersole with the welt and the upper and which pass through the innersole at the lip formed thereon, tend to stiffen the sole materially, and greatly reduce and impair the extreme flexibility which is particularly desirable for childrens footwear. To avoid this objection shoes have been made wherein the upper is stitched to the welt only, but this has entailed the 0bjection of leaving the innersole practically loose and susceptible of shifting within the shoe, or at best only insecurely held by cementing the same to the upper.

In accordance with my invention I provide an improved innersole that may be assembled in the shoe without stitching to the upper, but which presents a peripheral layer or extending lip that is adapted to be held between the peripheral edge portion of the welt and the outer sole, and securely assembled therewith by through-and-through stitching. I am thus enabled to attain the ad vantage of extreme flexibility in a shoe wherein all the elements including the innercordance with my invention, e.

sole are held in securely stitched assemblage. The foregoing and other objects and advantages of the invention will more fully appear from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the distinctive features of novelty will be pointed out in the appendedclaims.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of an innersole con structed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof on line 22 of Figure 1;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the forward portion of a shoe constructed in acg. on line 3-3 of Figure 4, but on a somewhat enlarged scale; and

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a shoe constructed in accordance with my invention, with the toe portion broken away in section.

In carrying out my invention an innersole 10 is dicated at 11, inward a substantial distance so as to provide relatively thin upper and lower peripheral layers 12, 13 respectively,

slitted and skived peripherally as inwith the lower 1 yer 13, as shown, extending outward farther than the upper layer 12. The upper 14 has the welt 15 stitched thereto as indicated at 16, and is then lasted underneath the upper layer 12 of the innersole, and adhesively secured thereto. This leaves the extending lower layer 13 of the innersole lying against the under side of the welt. In this way, no tacking is necessary for holdmg the welting to the inner sole, the adhesive cement alone holding the upper and welt securely'in the slit opening and lower layers of the inner sole which embrace the same at either side. This capabihty of lasting the shoe without tacking is between the upper I one important feature and advantage of the greatest possible degree of flexibility. In

practice the peripheral edge of the innersole layer 13 may be skived down very thin, so as not to show appreciably in the finished shoe, the edge of which is of course finished in the usual manner. I am aware that the invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof, and I therefore desire the present embodiment to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, reference being had to the appended claims rather than to the foregoing description to indicate the scope of the invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is and through and through stitching outsole,

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uniting-said'loutsole; lower insole layer, Welt only, of said shoe being confined 5 and the upper layer o f the insole. 2. The improved process of manufacturing upper materials and a Welt slitting an insole member peripherallyin' such manner that 10 an upper and a lower layer Will be produced, 9: 43 lasting the assembledupper and Welt between the DllfglIUOf thelupper materials;

between the-Welt.

the said upper and lower layers of said insole with theinargin (pf-the upperinaterials 00na lined between the Welt and upper insole layer, and adhesively uniting the same, applying anloutsole thereto, and uniting said outsole, lower insole layer and Welt by through and through stitching. In testimony whereof, I have signed mntuneito this speeification.

CLAUDE 1-1 DANIELS. 

